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Re: [Chicken-hackers] incorrect warning during compilation
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John Cowan |
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Re: [Chicken-hackers] incorrect warning during compilation |
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Fri, 27 Jun 2014 12:52:22 -0400 |
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Kristian Lein-Mathisen scripsit:
> And I guess string->blob/shared isn't all that useful if no other Schemes
> support it and we have plenty of other workarounds. I never really got
> blobs anyway, when do you *not* just want to use a string instead? They
> print so much nicer than blobs, even with binary data that's escaped with
> \x!
Strings have definite semantics as a sequence of characters, even if you
need to know the encoding. Blobs have no semantics at all: they can be
logically strings, or SRFI 4 vectors, or arrays of C structs, or whatever.
--
John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan address@hidden
Samuel Johnson on playing the violin: "Difficult do you call it, Sir?
I wish it were impossible."
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- Re: [Chicken-hackers] incorrect warning during compilation, Felix Winkelmann, 2014/06/25
- Re: [Chicken-hackers] incorrect warning during compilation, Kristian Lein-Mathisen, 2014/06/25
- Re: [Chicken-hackers] incorrect warning during compilation, Felix Winkelmann, 2014/06/27
- Re: [Chicken-hackers] incorrect warning during compilation, Kristian Lein-Mathisen, 2014/06/27
- Re: [Chicken-hackers] incorrect warning during compilation, Felix Winkelmann, 2014/06/27
- Re: [Chicken-hackers] incorrect warning during compilation, Kristian Lein-Mathisen, 2014/06/27
- Re: [Chicken-hackers] incorrect warning during compilation, Jörg F. Wittenberger, 2014/06/27
- Re: [Chicken-hackers] incorrect warning during compilation, Felix Winkelmann, 2014/06/27
- Re: [Chicken-hackers] incorrect warning during compilation,
John Cowan <=
- Re: [Chicken-hackers] incorrect warning during compilation, Moritz Heidkamp, 2014/06/27
- Re: [Chicken-hackers] incorrect warning during compilation, Felix Winkelmann, 2014/06/27